Open Educational Resources: Building a personal learning kit

Creating Open Educational Resources

Building a Personal Learning Kit

Ramesh Sharma6 March 2013

National Workshop on OER Commonwealth of Learning & Indira Gandhi National Open University

Networked Teacher

Networked Teacher

The Couros diagram of the networked teacher illustrates the many ways that teachers interact with students, colleagues, peers and other resources, both human and digital across the Internet. In each case, these interactions are software and network-enabled.

Software Applications

What is important is for networked teachers to assemble a personal learning toolkit of software applications that will allow them to communicate with peers, assemble and manage digital resources, publish and share digital resources with others.

Tools to build Personal Learning Toolkit

With these tools you'll be able to explore the Internet, keep notes and capture ideas from web sites you visit.

Ways to build a Personal Learning Toolkit

• seek advice from others who may have more knowledge

• explore free or open source toolshttp://blog.iwayvietnam.com/tuanta/2011/01/27/open-source-status-report-reveals-good-health-and-profits/

http://www.open-ed.net/

http://www.oerasia.org/module-1/building-a-personal-learning-toolkit

OER Handbook for Educators 1.0

Editor - David Wiley

Exploring personal learning tools

Image Source: http://elearnmag.acm.org/archive.cfm?aid=2379624

Browse the web and clip web pages for future reference

Open source tools Free to use tools

http://evernote.com/http://nevernote.sourceforge.net/

Document creation and sharing


http://www.openoffice.org/ https://www.google.com/intl/en/drive/start/apps.html

Research tool for organizing bibliographic references


http://jabref.sourceforge.net/ http://www.zotero.org/

Social networking, micro blogging tool for real-time connection to peers


http://identi.ca/ https://twitter.com/

Social bookmarking service to share useful web bookmarks with peers


http://freelish.us/ https://www.diigo.com/

Blogging service for posting articles, journal entries, notes and images


http://wordpress.org/ https://www.blogger.com/tour_start.g

Internet telephone and web presence tool for one-to-one or small group discussions


http://www.linphone.org/ http://www.skype.com/en/

Online web conferencing and white-boarding with peers or students


http://www.bigbluebutton.org/ http://www.wiziq.com/

open-source audio editing tool

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/download/index.php

open-source image editing tool

http://www.gimp.org/ http://www.getpaint.net/

open-source learning management systems

https://moodle.org/ http://www.sakaiproject.org/

open source content management systems

http://drupal.org/ http://www.joomla.org/

Wikis

https://www.dokuwiki.org/wiki:dokuwiki http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

Blogs

http://www.movabletype.org/ http://wordpress.org/

Open source office programs

http://www.openoffice.org/ http://www.abisource.com/

Free to use online office suites

https://www.google.com/intl/en/drive/start/apps.html

http://member.thinkfree.com/member/goLandingPage.action

Web authoring tools

video and animation programs

http://www.blender.org/ http://kinodv.org/

An Open Educational Resource (OER) project

http://wikieducator.org/User:Kalpanagupte#Guide_for_newly_enrolled_Distance_Learners

http://wikieducator.org/User:Rashkath#My_Projects_on_Wikieducator

Exploring OER projects and their goals

• The purpose and objectives of the project

• The target groups or audiences for the project

• The kinds of OERs the project provides

• The technology requirements for using the OERs

• The value the OER project provides

Begin to plan your own OER project

Establishing an OER strategy

• Instructor-focused OER strategy

• Student-focused OER strategy

• Personal OER strategy

Reviewing existing OER projects and their resources

• Scope of existing educational resources

• Quality of existing materials

• The manner in which OERs are made available on the web

• Forms and formats of existing resources, including their CC licenses

• Potential for reuse and remixing existing resources in your context